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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes more pains over details than does Andrew Wyeth. If a picture is rich enough in detail, he figures, it can be dramatically simple in its overall effect. He once devoted three quarters of a painting to a grassy hillside, spent a month and a half brushing in each grass blade separately "to make it come toward you, that surge of earth." Perfectionist though he is, Wyeth does not aim to please. The warmth, charm and dazzle of color are foreign to him; so are rhythmic arabesques of line. Using egg tempera and tiny brushes, he paints mostly with dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Within Limits | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...have been much amused by the continued furor caused by this newspaper in regard to the dearth of social, bisexual entertainment facilities available to the Harvard undergraduate. Much energy, crimition, and literary license has been indulged in to describe the lush grass somewhere and to compare it to the pallid green homeland of the Cantabridgian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greener Grass? | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

...would like to point out that there is green grass nearby--just over a fence not too difficult to peer across, right over the tilted nose of a Harvard undergraduate. Here at the Graduate Center, in Harkness Commons, can be found a night club atmosphere with a dance floor surrounded by tables replete with beer and set-ups. Just below this upper level academic stork club can be found a more intimate and elegant dance for an extracurricular group with a social bent. Next door, amid the topography of Women Hall's Wheeler Room, a smoky and more Bacchanalian dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greener Grass? | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

...Balkanized and monetarily oriented Houses could come together long enough to look at the nearby grass of the Graduate Center, we feel sure that they could find gardening techniques to bring their wasteland to full bloom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greener Grass? | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

...spend money in Boston? Why wage a fruitless battle against wholesale revision of the parietal rules. What the supposedly senescent and slumbering law and graduate students are doing in the Graduate Center could at least be equalled by the fine flower of our student body in its tenements. The grass doesn't have to be greener on the other side of the fence. Frederick Holborn '49, 1 PA Lloyd Rudolph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greener Grass? | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

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